Cleeve Lock

Cleeve Lock
Cleeve Lock from upstream
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WaterwayRiver Thames
CountyOxfordshire
Maintained byEnvironment Agency
OperationHydraulic
First built1787
Latest built1874
Length40.71 m (133 ft 7 in) [1]
Width5.53 m (18 ft 2 in)[1]
Fall0.89 m (2 ft 11 in)[1]
Above sea level138'
Distance to
Teddington Lock
66 miles
Power is available out of hours
Cleeve Lock
River Thames
Benson Lock
weir
Old mill
Wallingford Bridge
Bradford's Brook
A4130 Wallingford Bypass
islands
Moulsford Railway Bridge
Cleeve Lock
weir
weir
Old mill
River Thames

Cleeve Lock is a lock on the River Thames, in Oxfordshire, England. It is located just upstream of Goring and Streatley villages, on the eastern side of the river within the village of Goring. There was a hamlet of Cleeve, after which the lock is named, but it dropped out of use, as always part of Goring.[2][3]

The first lock was built in 1787 by the Thames Navigation Commissioners. The reach above the lock is the longest, and the reach below it is the shortest, on the non-tidal river.

The weir runs to an island below the lock, and there are further weirs between islands downstream.

  1. ^ a b c "Environment Agency Dimensions of locks on the River Thames". web page. Environmental Agency. 8 November 2012. Retrieved 17 November 2012. Dimensions given in metres
  2. ^ "Towns and Villages around Reading". Visitor UK. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
  3. ^ Draper, Simon. "Goring Introduction: Landscape, Settlement, and Buildings" (PDF). Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 28 June 2021.